A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
Washington, DC – During last week’s Congressional hearing, TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified that TikTok labels state-backed media accounts. A new analysis from the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund shows that’s not always the [...]
We begin with the Biden administration’s second Summit for Democracy that began today in Washington D.C. with over 120 world leaders joining in by video minus NATO members Hungary and Turkey who were excluded although India’s Modi, who just jaile [...]
At this week’s Summit for Democracy, governments are expected to address how important countering disinformation and securing access to independent media are to democracy’s survival. Efforts to build and strengthen information resilience are taking [...]
KELEMEN: This is the second Summit for Democracy, and this year, there will be events in Zambia, Costa Rica, the Netherlands and South Korea. Laura Thornton, who's with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, likes that idea. She says last y [...]
Ask any person working on democracy issues — off the record — about President Biden’s Summit for Democracy, and you get eye rolls followed by a litany of unflattering reviews, including from U.S. government officials. I too have criticized aspects o [...]
Lindsay Gorman of the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy says U.S. companies like Apple have significant manufacturing bases in China, and that complicates the “geopolitical picture.” [...]
The Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund and Issue One publish new report calling for key election investment and reforms Today, the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund and Issue One released a new repo [...]
Lindsay Gorman, a senior fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, talked about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Moscow this week and the potential Chinese influence over TikTok. [...]
Lindsay Gorman, Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies at the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, and Mandeep Singh, Senior Technology Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, discuss TikTok's uncertain future after the company's CEO [...]
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Scripps News on Thursday, March 23, to preview TikTok CEO Shou Chew’s testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. [...]
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined LiveNOW FOX to discuss a possible US TikToK ban ahead of the CEO's congressional testimony. [...]
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined BBC on Thursday, March 23, to discuss the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s hearing with TikTok CEO Shou Chew. [...]
David Levine is an experienced elections professional with a wide range of expertise in election security, administration, and policy. He currently serves as the Election Integrity Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a nonpartisan initi [...]
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Scripps News on Thursday, March 23, to discuss the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s reaction to TikTok CEO Shou Chew’s testimony. [...]
Democracies across all continents are under immense pressure. In the past two decades, democratic backsliding has shifted from being a worrying yet peripheral factor to being a defining element of modern politics. The alarming signs, the exact mech [...]
The Biden administration is giving TikTok an ultimatum. The Chinese owners of the app must sell their stake in the company, or we will ban the app in the United States. Former Biden administration adviser Lindsay Gorman with the Alliance for Secu [...]
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined BBC World News on Thursday, March 16, 2023 to discuss the United Kingdom’s decision to ban TikTok on government devices. The UK ban follows [...]
Moscow issues ominous threats as Georgians fight for their imperiled democracy. Last week, the Georgian parliament, led by the Georgian Dream (GD) party, advanced new legislation that would label civil society and media organizations that receive [...]
Senior Vice President of Democracy Laura Thornton joined DW News to discuss Georgia's "foreign agents" law and the protests that led parliament to drop it. [...]
Following the Georgian parliament’s passage [of the "foreign agents" law], I was once again inspired by the Georgian people who took to the street to peacefully protest. As you know well, security agents have violently attacked them. This is sadly n [...]
Background Briefing with Ian Masters · Biden's Meeting With the Bucharest 9 Who Expressed Unanimous Solidarity With Ukraine In the short term, the war should be seen as a Ukrainian victory and a Russian blunder, but Kyiv will need continued Western [...]
Lindsay Gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined BBC World News on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 to discuss the meeting between Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, and Russian President Vladimir [...]
David Salvo, managing director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF and a former State Department official in Russia, joined Scripps News on Sunday, February 5, 2023 to discuss the latest updates on Russia’s war in Ukraine. [...]
The Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) began hosting the Hamilton 68 dashboard in August 2017 to track Russian influence operations on Twitter. By analyzing a dynamic list of more than 600 Twitter accounts linked, wittingly or unwittingly, to Rus [...]
A favorite tune in the foreign information operations playlist is that democracies are in disarray, are inefficient, and do not deliver for citizens. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, China attacked the ability of democracies to ha [...]
Despite fears of false and misleading election information resulting in more election worker threats and doubt about the 2022 elections, Idaho appears to have emerged from the midterms relatively unscathed. Idaho election officials and their partner [...]
OSET Institute's feature interview is with David Levine, Elections Integrity Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy of the German Marshall Fund. David is a non-practicing lawyer and previously, the Ada County, Idaho Elections Director. David [...]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, taking the security risk to come to Washington for meetings with President Joe Biden and lawmakers, reassured a joint session of Congress yesterday that, “Your money is not charity. It’s an investment in the [...]
David Salvo, deputy director at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF and a former State Department official in Russia, joined LiveNOW from FOX on Tuesday, December 13, 2022. He discussed why Russia did not include Paul Whelan in the Brittney G [...]
Should members of Congress be able to object to election results as part of a strategy to draw greater attention to election reform efforts, as two Democratic members tried to do following George W. Bush’s reelection in 2004? Should members of Congr [...]
Almost a month after an extremely consequential US midterm election, the initial collective sigh of relief felt by most Europeans seems to have given way to pause, if not revived concern. President Macron’s recent official state visit to Washington [...]
David Salvo, deputy director at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Newsy to discuss the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner, who had been sentenced to serve a nine year sentence in a Russian penal colony. Griner returned to the Uni [...]
Bret Schafer joins Background Briefing with Ian Masters to examine who is giving aid and comfort to the enemy or who is a useful idiot and expand on his quotes in an article at The Guardian “Top US conservatives pushing Russian spin on Ukraine war, [...]
Rachael Dean Wilson, Head of External Affairs at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at GMF, joined Newsy to discuss the results of the 2022 US Midterm elections. She discussed what we can expect from this split Congress and how voters widely reject [...]
On 8 November 2022, two years after Joe Biden was elected president of the United States, Americans cast their ballots in a highly consequential midterm election. Although the final results may take days or weeks to be known, the vaunted ‘red wave’ [...]
Likely Republican control of the U.S. House of Representatives poses a potential obstacle for support to Ukraine. Key members of the potential incoming House caucus and outside influencers have suggested resistance to further aid. That is not only [...]
David Levine, elections integrity fellow at GMF’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, joined Newsy in the lead up to the 2022 US midterm elections. He discussed potential cyber threats, the effects of Twitter’s change of ownership on the platform’s pol [...]
The midterm elections are just 4 days away, and over 34 million people have cast their vote. And yet, there are still many people who don't believe our elections are safe and secure, who haven't cast a vote yet. David Levine from the Alliance for S [...]
What will it take to rebuild Ukraine when the war is over? A report released in September by the World Bank, Ukrainian government, and the European Commission estimates that Russia’s unprovoked invasion has already caused more than $97 billion in d [...]
While much has been written about the nearly 300 election-denying candidates seeking public office this November, Americans who believe in democracy shouldn’t lose hope yet. But they do need to act now to ensure the integrity of future elections. D [...]